Jason Pierre-Paul, who played just one season at South Florida after two years at a junior college, went to the Giants - a choice that generally drew cheers from the blue-clad New York fans in the crowd.

Evidence of her aesthetic explorations decorated her home: a blue-clad matador in acrylic confronting a monstrous black bull, the stone arches leading up to the Conservatorio de las Rosas painted in oils, and the color pencil image of a man teaching a boy the harmonica.